2025 Next College Football Coach Fired Odds: Wisconsin's Luke Fickell Is In A Pickle

By Christopher Boan Oct 20th, 2025 1:16 PM EDT

The fans in Madison make their displeasure known when it comes to Luke Fickell's performance. (USA TODAY)

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The 2025 Next College Football Coach Fired hot seat shifted to "fully engulfed" after Week 8.

Among the coaches dispatched this season: Sam Pittman (Arkansas), Mike Gundy (Oklahoma State), DeShaun Foster (UCLA), Brent Pry (Virginia Tech), James Franklin (Penn State) and Billy Napier (Florida).

Wisconsin's Luke Fickell has moved into the top spot of our 2025 Next College Football Coach Fired list entering Week 9.

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Next Coach Fired Candidates Far & Wide

Angry, angst-ridden, and agitated fan bases never stop the chatter about moving on from their current head coach. It doesn't matter if their favorite team loses to its biggest rival or gets crushed by its top intra-conference foes. Never mind whiff when it comes to college football betting odds.

Multiple big-name schools replaced their head coaches since Ohio State won the national championship in January. Meanwhile, thanks to NIL and the portal, rosters remain in constant churn.There are several teams whose coaches may still find themselves on our 2025 Next College Football Coach Fired as their teams struggle this season. 

Let’s take a look at our weekly 2025 Next College Football Coach Fired odds.

2025 CFB Next Coach Fired Odds

Here are our latest 2025 Next College Football Coach Fired odds in the First Power 4 College Football Coach (ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, ACC) Fired during the 2025 season.

Power 4 teams only. Odds above have been created by Bookies.com Senior Handicapper Adam Thompson and do not reflect odds that may be available on legal betting apps.

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Names To Watch On The CFB Coaching Hot Seat In 2025

Our top candidate to get booted next is still Luke Fickell of Wisconsin, who enters the week at +150 (or 40%) to get fired next after limping his way to a 2-5 mark with the Badgers this season, moving his four-year total to 15-18 (.455) at UW.  

In 33 games with the Badgers, Fickell has gone to two one full season bowl game, that being the 2023 ReliaQuest Bowl, which Wisconsin lost to LSU, 35-31, followed by a 5-7 dud in 2024 and the team’s aforementioned 2-5 start this season.  

While Fickell’s tenure in Madison has fallen far from expectations after going 57-18 with a CFP berth with the Cincinnati Bearcats, the former Ohio State nose guard is far from the only CFB coach on the hot seat, with Auburn’s Hugh Freeze (+300) and fellow SEC stalwart Mark Stoops of Kentucky (+600) sitting on simmering situations on The Plains and Lexington.  

Freeze, like Fickell, has failed to match expectations at Auburn to date, going 6-7, 5-7 and 3-4 to date, while losing the Tigers’ lone bowl game during his time with the team, that being the 2023 Music City Bowl, which ended in a 31-13 rout at the hands of Maryland.  

In Stoops’ case, 13 years is a long time to stay at a given school, with the UK stalwart going from the high of leading the Wildcats to a bowl game in eight straight seasons from 2016 to 2023, before crashing to earth in a disastrous 4-8 campaign last fall and going 2-4 this season.  

For those keeping score at home, the team at CBS Sports has Fickell’s contract buyout at 80% of what’s left of his initial deal at UW, which would be $25 million if he’s fired at the end of the year, while Freeze’s total is a more palatable $15.4 million, per CBS Sports.  

That number balloons when you look at Stoops’ deal with Kentucky, as Pat Forde of Sports Illustrated reports the UK veteran’s latest contract is rumored to pay him $38 million if he gets the boot in 2025, which could impede any movement in Lexington this football season.  

Who Else Could Go Next?  

Outside of the names mentioned above, a potential wild card name that could get axed next is Rich Rodriguez, who has gone 2-5 in his first year back at West Virginia, with four straight losses against teams like Kansas, Utah, BYU and UCF — who have beat the Mountaineers by a combined total of 111 points.  

Per USA Today, Rodriguez’s buyout should he get canned by WVU in his first year back in town would be roughly $7.6 million, ranking 55th out of the 105 FBS programs surveyed by the national publication, though we’re still going with the former Michigan, Arizona and Jacksonville State head coach to be among the leaders in the next coach fired chase, at +800.  

When it comes to firing longshots, keep an eye on Clemson, as Dabo Swinney’s bunch has crashed and burned to 3-4 record this fall, with a 35-24 loss to SMU in Death Valley being the Tigers’ latest flop in 2025.  

Overall, we have Swinney co-listed along with FSU’s Mike Norvell as the next coach fired at +1200, though the two-time CFP championship coach at Clemson holds a whopping $60 million buyout, per CBS Sports, potentially preventing the South Carolina institution from making any drastic decisions this season.  

Norvell’s future in Tallahassee appears set for this season, at least, as FSU AD Michael Alford told members of the media that the Seminoles would hold off on making any coaching moves until the regular season wraps up, despite FSU dropping four straight games (including a 20-13 road loss to lowly Stanford on Saturday night).  

The former Memphis head coach’s buyout is $55 million, per CBS Sports, putting him on the same financial footing as Swinney and Stoops, potentially buying him some time to figure things out in 2025 and beyond.  

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Christopher Boan

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Christopher Boan has covered sports and sports betting in Arizona for more than seven years, with stops at ArizonaSports.com, Tucson Weekly and Green Valley News.

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